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with  great  advantage,  especially  to  country  practitioners,  who  often  need 
concentrated  medicines  in  their  rural  pharmacy.  Necessarily  more  prone 
to  decomposition  than  solid  extracts,  it  is  an  important  point  to  render  them 
as  permanent  as  possible,  and  to  this  end  the  propriety  of  an  alcoholic 
menstruum  is  sometimes  undoubted,  even  where  its  solvent  power  is  not 
called  into  play. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  period  is  rapidly  approach- 
ing when  the  Association  will  hold  its  Annual  Meeting  for  1855,  in  New 
York.  We  have  stated  in  a  note  to  the  announcement  of  the  meeting  on  a 
preceding  page,  that  the  rooms  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  in 
the  Hall  of  the  New  York  Medical  College  on  Thirteenth  Street  between 
Third  and  Fourth  Avenues,  have  been  fixed  upon  by  the  Committee  of  Ar- 
rangement of  that  Institution.  This  locality,  though  comparatively  central 
on  the  city  plot,  is  considerably  north  of  the  business  centre,  which 
may  now  be  placed  at  the  Park  or  City  Hall.  For  the  information  of 
those  who  are  not  familiar  with  New  York  localities,  it  may  be  useful 
to  state  that  the  Third  and  Fourth  Avenue  cars  leave  the  south  end  of 
the  Park  on  the  Chatham  Street  side,  at  short  intervals,  and  cross 
Thirteenth  Street  within  a  square  of  the  place  of  meeting.  This  will 
enable  members  stopping  at  hotels  in  the  business  district  to  go  and 
return  with  the  least  inconvenience.  Omnibuses  are  also  constantly 
passing   along   Broadway   within  a  short  distance  of  the  Hall. 
As  the  modification  of  the  Constitution  will  probably  be  an  important 
feature  in  the  discussions,  members  proposing  to  be  in  attendance 
would  do  well  to  give  some  consideration  to  that  document  as  it  at  present 
stands.  Another  point  of  general  interest  is  the  Report  on  a  certificate  of 
membership.  Besides  the  Reports  of  Committees,  it  is  probable  that  many 
subjects  of  local  and  general  interest  will  be  brought  forward,  and  among 
these  we  hope  to  find  those  of  a  scientific  character,  practical  and  theo- 
retical, of  which  not  a  few  deeply  interest  our  profession. 
It  is  probable  that  many  pharmaceutists  may  be  attracted  to  the  meeting 
at  New  York,  in  part,  by  the  opportunity  it  will  afford  them  of  making 
important  business  transactions  in  that  great  commercial  metropolis ;  and 
we  hope  our  New  York  friends  will  suggest  to  those  who  may  be  there  with 
out  reference  to  the  meeting,  that  they  attend  its  sittings. 
Sulphate  of  Quinia. — Our  readers  will  perceive  that  Dr.  Squibb  has 
ftgain  given  his  experimental  attention  to  the  Sulphate  of  Quinia  of  Messrs. 
Powers  &  Weightman.  The  position  he  now  takes  is  somewhat  different 
from  that  in  his  first  communication,  in  July;  whilst  the  manufacturers, 
after  a  fuller  investigation  than  they  had  previously  had  time  to  give  the 
matter,  corroborate  their  previous  statements  and  question  the  results  of  Dr. 
Squibb.  The  chief  point  at  issue  is,  does  disulphate  of  quinia,  when  dried 
at  a  temperature  of  240°  F.  till  it  ceases  to  lose  weight,  retain  two  equiva- 
